Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, translator and journalist.

Quotes

• To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.
  • "Guilt Edged Crisis" The Observer (8 August 1965) p. 9.
• The more you try to describe a dream the further it eludes your grasp, retreating before the advance of the words, growing cooler and cooler and paler and paler, until, when you have recorded it all, there is nothing of what it was really like left in your memory.
  • The Tin Men (London: Collins, 1965) p. 59.
• One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"…The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."
  • James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.
• If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.
  • James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.
• I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.
  • Summerchild in A Landing on the Sun (1991), p. 142.
• It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.
  • Clockwise (1986), cited from Malcolm Page File on Frayn (London: Methuen, 1994) p. 65.

External links

• Michael Frayn at IMDb